Frances S. Ligler

Frances S. Ligler is the Navy’s Senior Scientist for Biosensors and Biomaterials and a member of the Bioengineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering. She earned a B.S. from Furman University and both a D.Phil. and a D.Sc. from Oxford University. Currently working in the fields of biosensors and microfluidics, she has also performed research in biochemistry, immunology, and proteomics. She has over 300 full-length publications and patents, which have been cited over 5300 times. She is the winner of the Navy Superior Civilian Service Medal, the National Drug Control Policy Technology Transfer Award, the Chemical Society Hillebrand Award, Navy Merit Award, NRL Technology Transfer Award, three NRL Edison Awards for Patent of the Year, the Furman University Bell Tower and Distinguished Alumni of the 20th Century Awards, and the national Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Outstanding Achievement in Science Award. She was elected the chair of the 1994 Gordon Research Conference on Bio/Analytical Sensors and an SPIE Fellow, and serves as an Associate Editor of Analytical Chemistry and a regional editor for North and South America for Biosensors & Bioelectronics. She is also on the editorial boards of Applied Biochemistry & Biotechnology, J. Microbiological Methods, Sensors Letters, and Open Optics. She is the American representative on the organizing committee for the International Biosensors Congress (Japan 2002, Spain 2004, Canada 2006, China 2008, United Kingdom 2010) and was elected to the permanent organizing committee of the European Conference on Optical Sensors (UK 2002, Spain 2004, Germany 2006, Ireland 2008, Czech Republic 2010). In 2003, she was awarded the Homeland Security Award (Biological, Radiological, Nuclear Field) by the Christopher Columbus Foundation and the Presidential Rank of Distinguished Senior Professional by President Bush.

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Center for Bio/Molecular Science and Engineering
Code 6907
4555 Overlook Ave. SW
Washington, D.C. 20375-5348

Tel. (202) 404-6002

Email: fligler@cbmse.nrl.navy.mil